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Espionage (2012)

by A.L. Sowards(Favorite Author)

3.95 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1608611485 (ISBN13: 9781608611485)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Covenant Communications

series

Espionage

review 1: To be honest I'm not really sure how I feel about this book. On one hand I feel like it was well written. There were some intense moments when I saw no way they could possibly escape the predicaments they found themselves in. While on the other hand I could never fully get into the story. Rather than the quick read I expected it to be I found myself stumbling along. I love history and especially WWII stories and that is what drew me to this series. I really liked Peter and Genevieve as characters. There would be moments when it verged on the edge of preachy but never made a total plunge. Even as Peter is a Mormon and therefore I wholeheartedly agree with everything he said and his bearing testimony in the way he lives, I still feel as though authors can try to drive home ... morean idea to the point where it detracts from the story but here we came to these moments but they didn't detract from the story so I appreciated that. This certainly wasn't a bad story and had some heart pumping moments but for me at this time I chose to read it, it lacked that bit of magic that could have turned it into a great book. I will be continuing the series and hoping to find that moment when it really clicks and takes off.
review 2: This novel follows Peter Eddy, an American spy set down in Calais to convince local Nazi leaders that a decoy invasion in Calais is the real thing. Naturally, in such a setting, he encounters a variety of villains and heroes, including a French resistance fighter Jaques Olivier and his sister Genevieve. I thought the writing flowed smoothly and the pace, particularly of the last third of the novel, was good. However, I wasn't in love with the characters or the voice--the characters, to me, all seemed sort of similar (the good guys similarly virtuous and the bad guys similarly evil). It's hard not to contrast this with the brilliantly written Code Name Verity, which takes on a similar topic, but with a more distinctive voice. less

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